The German-language edition of “Once Upon A Nightwish: The Official Biography 1996-2006“, by Mape Ollila, has finally been made available for the first time. A limited-edition version of the book comes with the platinum-certified “From Wishes To Eternity” DVD (see images below), which can be personalized (either to yourself or to someone else, especially if you are giving the book away as a Christmas gift).

In late 2009, Marcelo Cabuli, the husband of former Nightwish singer Tarja Turunen, and his business partners filed a lawsuit against the parties behind the Nightwish book “Once Upon a Nightwish: The Official Biography 1996-2006” for slander.

Named in the lawsuit were the publishing house Like Kustannus Oy, its CEO Päivi Isosaari and the author of the book, Marko “Mape” Ollila.

Cabuli claimed that the information published about him and his businesses in the book was completely false.

Isosaari, however, stood behind the 380-page book, which chronicles NIGHTWISH’s rise to the status of one of the most successful symphonic metal acts in the world, including the circumstances that led to the departure of Turunen.

“Well, I did read the text and I authorized it to be published and therefore I stand behind the book,” Isosaari told the Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat.

In his 2006 review of the book, Jarkko Jokelainen Helsingin Sanomat wrote, “The book points the finger [for the split with Tarja] most firmly in the direction of Marcelo Cabuli, husband and personal manager of the band’s former vocal soloist Tarja Turunen. With every turning page, the charges against the Argentine Cabuli get heavier and heavier.

“The portrait of Marcelo Cabuli depicts a money-grasping, less-than-honest, arbitrary, and manipulative manager who was engaged on setting up his wife’s solo career and who drove a wedge between her and the other members of the power metal band.

“NIGHTWISH‘s contractual dealings and touring plans became a painful exercise, as there was ‘a Hispanic in the works’ at every turn.

“Against this background, it is somewhat awkward that the defendant himself does not get a hearing in the book, even though the other sources close to the band are given full rein to open their hearts and mouths. Not even Tarja Turunen gets to comment on her husband’s doings.

“It is probable that the decision is the couple’s own, but this does not disguise the fact that it is the book’s greatest drawback. The author Marko ‘Mape’ Ollila has sought to be even-handed in his coverage, but in part for the reasons above, this band-history inevitably becomes a speech on behalf of the male members of the group and other figures in the background.

“NIGHTWISH would seem on the basis of this work to have been so divided into two distinct camps that both sides of the story cannot be fitted between the covers of one book.”

Bazillion Points Books is offering a free download of “Chapter 5. The Upward Spiral”, excerpted from the North American edition of “Once Upon A Nightwish: The Official Biography 1996-2006”, by Mape Ollila. The sample chapter can be downloaded from Bazillion Points Books at this location.

Source: Blabbermouth.net